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Two-piece detachable bracket for supporting pool deck-lid modules covering below deck troughs housing powered pool cover systems

Active Publication Date: 2016-05-05
LAST HARRY J
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The described detachable cantilever bracket system for supporting heavy pool-deck lid modules is robust, adjustable, and easily detached for service and maintenance. The system includes a structural arm, a clamping plate, a formed wall anchor, bolts, and tilt adjustment set screws. The bracket system allows for easy installation, removal, and re-installation of the pool cover system without complicating the plurality of overhanging structural cantilever arms. The slotted vertical planar mounting plate of the formed wall anchor enables adjusting the angle of extension of the structural arm, while the set screws at the bottom of the structural arm tilt the base plate of the lid support arm for determining and adjusting the angles of inclination of the cantilevered structural arm. The width of the planar plates of the removable structural arms can be selected for positioning below a junction of adjacent deck-lid modules.

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Other complications, affecting design of pool-deck lid brackets include pool cover cabling that traverses along the back wall of the housing trough from one end of the trough to the other end coupling one side of the pool cover to the cable windup reels typically located at motor end of the pool cover system on the other side of the pool.

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[0031]FIGS. 1-2 present right side and right rear perspective views of a decoupled relationship of the basic structural components of an adjustable, two-piece, detachable cantilever bracket, namely a wall anchor, a detachable structural arm, a rectangular clamping plate and tilt adjustment set screws.

[0032]As illustrated in FIGS. 1-5, &7, the wall anchor may be formed from any bendable structural material (carbon steel), any extruded structural material (aluminum alloys), or any cast structural material (grey cast iron). The formed wall anchor presents a vertical planar mounting plate elevated by integral, vertical side-wall plates with coaxial openings for accommodating transverse cabling of a pool cover system and perpendicular, oppositely extending co-planar mounting flanges with bolt ports. The planar mounting plate of the wall anchor has a pair of parallel vertical slots depending down from its top edge sized and spaced to register with bolt ports or holes through a orthogonal ...

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Two-piece detachable bracket for supporting heavy pool-deck lid modules covering below deck troughs housing powered pool cover systems is described.

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RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application relates to and claims the benefits conferred by U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 62 / 074,054 filed by Applicant Harry J. Last on Nov. 2, 2014 entitled “Two-Piece Detachable Bracket for Supporting Pool-Deck Lid Modules Covering Below Deck Troughs Housing Powered Pool Cover Systems”, the entirety of which is incorporated herein by reference.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]1. Field of the Invention[0003]The present invention relates generally to automatic swimming pool cover systems, and, in particular to brackets for supporting heavy pool-deck lids covering below-deck troughs housing pool cover systems.[0004]2. Description of the Prior Art[0005]Typical deck-lid structures covering troughs housing automatic pool cover systems include brackets secured to or incorporated into a back wall of a housing trough with support arms cantilevered across the trough for supporting heavy modular lid plates or composition trays that in turn integ...

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IPC IPC(8): F16M13/02F16B2/06E04H4/10
CPCF16M13/02F16B2/065E04H4/101E04H4/08E04H4/14E04H4/108
Inventor LAST, HARRY J.
Owner LAST HARRY J